Research into the life-shortening neurological condition motor neurone disease (MND) will receive a major boost through the formation of a new data catalyst led by Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) and Dementia Platforms UK (DPUK). The MND Research Data Catalyst sits within the DPUK Data Portal as a Trusted Research Environment (TRE) Hub. SeRP…
Linking police and healthcare data has revealed that highly vulnerable individuals are detectable before the involvement of the police. Now a new study by Swansea University researchers says data sharing and linkage could help reduce police callouts and future emergency medical admissions. This study, published in The Lancet, and led by the National Centre for…
A study by Population Data Science at Swansea University has revealed that even though COVID-19 is associated with increased risks of post-infection conditions such as fatigue and embolism- the overall healthcare burden was low, with very few people experiencing adverse outcomes following COVID-19. Published in BMC Medicine, the collaborative study, led by researchers at the…
A new International COVID-19 Data Research Alliance and Workbench will support the rapid development of therapies to combat the global effects of COVID-19. Established by Health Data Research (HDR) UK and partners, following funding announced by the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator and the Gates Foundation.
A new research project born out of the current COVID-19 pandemic will track the moods of people with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) over time to monitor its effect on accelerating the progression of the disease.
The COVID-19 pandemic looks set to create a mental health crisis affecting young people in the UK, and experts at Swansea University Medical School are finding out how best to deal with it.
The study is being supported by SAIL (Secure Anonymous Information Linkage) Databank based at Swansea University Medical School. It is a world-leading, population databank, entrusted by the Welsh NHS to safely store the Welsh population’s health data, collected routinely by GPs and hospitals.
The latest research, done on 24th – 26th April, also found that one fifth of unemployed adults surveyed said they had had suicidal thoughts and feelings during the last two weeks. This is more than double the rate among UK adults generally.
The authors had analysed 850,000, anonymised, individual patient records within SAIL Databank to look for an association between age and survival rates against an index of comorbidities. They also examined 145 patients within SAIL Databank who had ‘influenza’ recorded as the cause of death for the year 2011.
Over 4100 people have responded to the MS Register initial (baseline) survey, 2000 of these people have gone on to answer a follow up survey. Two hundred people who have told us that they have a confirmed (by lab test or been told by a health care professional) or suspected case of coronavirus.
